You can't manage what you haven't measured.
An engineer-led audit of your technology as it actually is — infrastructure, security, network, Microsoft 365, compliance, cameras, software — scored against a standard and written up with priorities and costs. Yours to keep, whoever does the work.
Most businesses have never seen an honest inventory of what they run, what it costs, and where it will fail. That inventory is the start of every good decision.
Great measurements make even better management.
It's the principle behind every platform we build, and it applies to your technology estate too. Before you buy, migrate, renew or sign a contract, know what you have, what it costs, what it's exposed to, and what will fail first. An audit turns "I think" into "I know".
Scored against a standard
Every finding is rated for risk and effort against a published checklist — CIS controls for security, Microsoft best practice for 365, the POPIA conditions for data — so the score means the same next year.
Independent by design
The audit is priced on its own and the report is written for anyone to act on. You're buying a clear view, not a sales funnel.
Prioritised, costed, dated
A fix-first list with indicative costs and a 90-day / 12-month roadmap. Short enough for a board pack; detailed enough for an engineer.
Seven audits. Combine what fits.
IT infrastructure & DR
Servers, storage, virtualisation, backups and the honest answer to "can we restore?"
- Asset and licence inventory
- Backup coverage and a real restore test
- Warranty, age and single points of failure
- Load-shedding and power resilience
Cyber-security posture
Where you're exposed and what an attacker would find first.
- External attack surface and exposed services
- Identity, MFA, privileged accounts
- Endpoint protection, patch state, email security
- Scored against CIS Controls
Network & connectivity
Topology, redundancy, Wi-Fi and the links you depend on.
- Discovered topology and IP plan
- Single points of failure, failover test
- Wi-Fi coverage and segmentation (VLANs)
- Link performance: latency, jitter, loss
Microsoft 365 & licensing
Configuration, security and whether you're paying for the right licences.
- Licence usage vs. spend, consolidation options
- Secure Score, conditional access, MFA
- Retention, DLP, mailbox backup
- Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive governance
Compliance readiness
Technology controls behind your regulatory obligations.
- POPIA conditions mapped to systems
- FICA record-keeping and retention
- FSCA / LPC / SAICA data and access rules
- Evidence pack for auditors and insurers
CCTV & physical security
Are the cameras, access control and alarms actually doing their job?
- Camera coverage, quality and retention
- Recorder health, remote access, firmware
- Access control, alarms, response SOPs
- Evidence usability for insurers and SAPS
Software & database health
The line-of-business system everything depends on — and nobody dares touch.
- Code, framework and dependency age
- Database performance, backups, integrity
- Integration map and data flows
- Modernise, replace or consolidate — with numbers
A report that gets used, not filed.
One page. Overall score, top five risks, what to do this quarter.
Everything you run — hardware, software, licences, links, contracts — and what it costs.
Each item rated for risk and effort against the standard, with evidence.
90-day fix list and 12-month plan with indicative pricing.
An hour with the engineer who wrote it, for your team or your board.
Scoped, measured, written, walked through.
Scope
20-minute call. Which audits, which sites, who to interview. Fixed price agreed.
Discover
Read-only tooling deployed, documents collected, short interviews, site visit where needed.
Score & write
Findings rated against the standard; roadmap and costs assembled; report reviewed by a second engineer.
Walk through
Presented to you or your board. Questions answered. Report is yours.
Straight answers.
How is an audit different from the free health check?
The health check is a 30-minute to two-hour engineer's read on your environment with a short written summary. An audit is a scoped, measured exercise — days, not hours — with tooling deployed, evidence collected, findings scored against a standard, and a board-ready report with a prioritised roadmap and indicative costs.
Which audits do you offer?
IT infrastructure and backup/DR; cyber-security posture; network and connectivity; Microsoft 365 configuration, licensing and compliance; regulatory readiness for POPIA, FICA, FSCA and LPC obligations; CCTV, access control and physical security systems; and software/database health for line-of-business systems. Most customers combine two or three.
Do we have to use Swiss Systems to fix what you find?
No. The report is written so any competent provider can act on it — that's the point of paying for an independent view. Many customers do ask us to fix the top items, and the audit becomes the scope for that work, but there is no obligation.
Will an audit disrupt the business?
No. Discovery tooling is read-only and outbound, interviews are short, and site visits are scheduled. Nothing is changed during an audit; recommendations are actioned only when you approve them.
How is it priced?
Fixed price per audit type and site size, quoted after a 20-minute scoping call. The free health check is often enough to decide whether a full audit is worth it — we'll tell you if it isn't.
Can it be repeated annually?
Yes, and it should be. Annual re-audits score the same items so you see the trend, and they double as evidence for insurers, auditors, regulators and clients who ask how your technology is controlled.
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Get the honest inventory.
A 20-minute scoping call tells you which audit fits and what it costs. If the free health check is enough, we'll say so.
Measured, not opinion
Tooling, evidence and a scoring standard. Findings you can show a board or an auditor.
Prioritised and costed
Fix-first list with risk, effort and indicative cost. No 200-page PDF nobody reads.
Yours to keep
Use it with us or with anyone else. Independence is what you're paying for.